Coraline director Harry Selick's new Wendell & Wild screens in time for Halloween, at VIFF Centre
Three screenings on October 31 for new stop-motion genius’s collab with Key and Peele
Wendell & Wild screens at the VIFF Centre on October 26 and 31
CORALINE AND THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE Christmas stop-motion genius Henry Selick has a new film screening at the VIFF Centre for Halloween. And he has some exciting collaborators for his first animated outing in a decade.
Get Out, Us, and Nope horror master Jordan Peele has cowritten the script, improvising the dialogue with his old comedy partner-in-crime Keegan-Michael Key.
In the film, Key and Peele voice Wendell and Wild, two mischievous demons who have escaped the Underworld, summoned to a Catholic school by a jaded, goth orphan named Kat (Lyric Ross); “I don’t do friends,” she says. “Bad things happen to people I’m close to.” Others on board include Ving Rhames, James Hong, and Angela Bassett.
With Selick at the helm, you know this will be an animated feature that isn’t afraid of the dark. (Who can forget the button eyes in Coraline?) Amid the twisted fun is a possessed teddy bear and a priest who comes back from the dead via a magical tube of hair-regrowth cream.
The feature debuts on Netflix, but here's your chance to take in the dazzling world of Selick's stop-motion on the big screen—with three viewings throughout Halloween itself (at 3:30 pm, 5:45 pm, and 8 pm).
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